I have not written about the Terri Schiavo case because it is too complex, too multilayered, and too steeped in unknown or unknowable facts for me – indeed for most people – to have a fully informed opinion.
I don’t know – and neither do you – if Michael Shiavo is trying to murder his wife or trying to fulfill her stated wishes for just such a scenario. I don’t know what Terri Schiavo would want – and neither do you – because she didn’t tell us via a living will. We have only the word of her husband who assures us that his wife once said she wouldn’t want to be kept alive this way, and we have her parents, who love their daughter and desire only to care for her.
I do know that the Congress did the wrong thing, intervened where it had no Constitutional right, and solved nothing.
Read the whole thing. I think he’s right.